Two new assertions characterizing analytically disks in the Euclidean plane ${ℝ}^2$ are proved. Weighted mean value property of positive solutions to the Helmholtz and modified Helmholtz equations are used for this purpose; the weight has a logarithmic singularity. The obtained results are compared with those without weight that were found earlier.

In this paper, we consider the existence and nonexistence of positive solutions of degenerate elliptic systems $$\left\}\begin{array}{cccc}-{\Delta }_{p}u=f(x,u,v),\hfill & \text{in}\Omega ,-{\Delta }_{p}v=g(x,u,v),\hfill & \text{in}\Omega ,u=v=0,& \text{on}\partial \Omega ,\end{array}\right.$$ where $-{\Delta }_p$ is the $p$-Laplace operator, $p>1$ and $\Omega$ is a $C^{1,\alpha }$-domain in ${ℝ}^n$. We prove an analogue of [7, 16] for the eigenvalue problem with $f(x,u,v)={\lambda }_1{v}^{p-1}$, $g(x,u,v)={\lambda }_2{u}^{p-1}$ and obtain a non-existence result of positive solutions for the general systems.

Let Ω be a smooth bounded domain in ${𝐑}^n$, n > 1, let a and f be continuous functions on $\overline{\Omega }$, $1^{☆}=\frac{n}{n-1}$. We are concerned here with the existence of solution in $BV\left(\Omega \right)$, positive or not, to the problem:
$$\left\{\begin{array}{cccc}\hfill -\mathrm{div}\sigma +a\left(x\right)signu& amp;={f\left|u\right|}^{1^{☆}-2}u\sigma .\nabla u\hfill & amp;=\left|\nabla u\right|\mathrm{in}\Omega u\mathrm{is}\mathrm{not}\mathrm{identically}\mathrm{zero},& amp;-\sigma .n\left(u\right)=\left|u\right|\mathrm{on}\partial \Omega .\end{array}\right.$$ This problem is closely related to the extremal functions for the problem of the best constant of $W^{1,1}\left(\Omega \right)$ into $L^{\frac{N}{N-1}}\left(\Omega \right)$.